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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) seeks to hire an Acquisition & Assistance Specialist in the Regional Acquisition & Assistance Office (RAAO), USAID/East Africa.
The position is open to qualified Kenyan citizens and located in Nairobi.
Basic Function of the Position:
As the principal assistant to a lead Contracting/Agreement Officer with responsibility for East Africa Region programs, the incumbent shall be required to perform independently in a program requiring complicated and sensitive contracting operations.
In this portfolio, most of the acquisition and assistance processes involve complex, multi-million dollar contracts, grants and cooperative agreements, many of which are structured with a prime contractor/grantee having one or more subcontractors/sub-grantees and requiring substantial contract/grant administration.
The Regional A&A Specialist will be required to apply a broad range of highly specialized acquisition and assistance functions.
The Regional A&A Specialist plays a key role in negotiating, administering, and modifying various types of contracts for the acquisition of services, equipment, supplies, materials, and other needs for projects having a strong contracting orientation.
While not a warranted Contracting/Agreement Officer, the incumbent must have developed specialized procurement knowledge by completing at least FAC Level II certification.
It is understood that an individual hired for this position may require training to meet the required qualifications and performance level.
Required Qualifications:
Any application that does not meet the minimum requirements stated below will not be evaluated.
Only short listed applicants will be contacted.
If you have not been contacted within one month from the closing date of this advertisement, please consider your application unsuccessful.
Education: A two-year college diploma (FSN 9), a bachelor’s degree (FSN 10), a master’s degree (FSN 11) in business administration, political science, international relations, procurement, supply chain management, social science, or a related field, is required. Specialized training in USG acquisition is desirable, but can occur after employment.
Prior Work Experience: Minimum 4 years (FSN 9), 5 years (FSN 10), and 6 years (FSN 11) of progressively responsible, professional experience is required, at least 2, preferably 3, years of which must be in procurement in a professional capacity with USG or similar organization.
Communication Skills: Excellent oral and written English communication skills are required including the ability to draft various procurement-related documents and to develop sound solicitation and instrument documents. Level IV (fluent) in spoken & written English and fluent Kiswahili is required.
Interpersonal Skills: Excellent interpersonal skills to deal effectively with various officials, sometimes with highly divergent points of view. Must be diplomatic and tactful in setting forth ideas, constraints, or courses of action.
For a complete position description visit http://kenya.usaid.gov/employment-opportunities.
Those fulfilling the requirements of the position should submit their application, together with a detailed CV and all relevant attachments to the following address:
Human Resources Office,
USAID/Kenya,
P.O. Box 629, Village Market 00621,
Nairobi, Kenya
Re: Acquisition & Assistance Specialist, RAAO/USAID/East Africa
Application must reach the USAID HR office by December 23, 2011.
AACES is a five year (2011 – 2016) project funded by AuSAID being implemented in Kenya, Tanzania and Australia.
In Kenya, the project will be implemented in the coastal region with an overall goal of serving the Underserved: Expanding reproductive health choices through improved access and equity in Kenya and Tanzania.
Description: Reporting to the Project Manager, the YPE coordinator will coordinate a network of youth peer educators in implementing IEC and BCC interventions focusing on integration of Sexual reproductive health services with a focus on family planning services targeting the youth.
Requirements: Experience and Qualifications:-
Should have a first degree in social sciences / education/ counseling (training in public health will be an added advantage.)
Age not over 30 years
Must be enrolled in a youth peer learning group
Trained as a Training of trainers in Peer Education
Must have demonstrated facilitation skills in PE and life skills education.
Knowledgeable and sensitive to youth issues
Be gender sensitive
Must have demonstrated organization and analytical report writing skills
Must have conducted 40 hours training in peer education
Able to work with teams and groups
Able to apply innovative training skills.
Be a self motivated individual with desire to inspire and create change.
Remuneration
A competitive and attractive package will be offered to the successful candidates.
Interested candidates should send a cover letter, CV and copies of their stated certificates to:
Marie Stopes Kenya The Human Resources Director: P.O Box 59328 – 00200 Nairobi.
- Customer Service: ability to establish working rapport with other, corporate employees and other personnel using proper etiquette and other effective interpersonal skills. – Ability to work overtime and variable shift assignment as needed to support the business – Ability to organize and prioritize daily duties, show initiative and identify problem areas – Good communication skills, both written and verbal – Strong Analytical skills Education: Assoc/Bachelors Degree a plus – IT skills: Excel, Word, powerpoint, Outlook Travel Requirements: May require traveling in Kenya and east African countries
• 4 or more years experience in carpentry. • Requires well rounded training and experience
Description: Overall job purposeAssist in the implementation and general operations of a training school for the organisation including planned expansion
Reporting: Director Training School
Duties and Responsibilities
- Coordinating the assessment and development of academic programs for the School.
- Coordinating the development of and implementation of the schools strategic plan .
- Assist in the preparation of the schools budget;
- Coordinating the training school planning and curriculum development .
- Coordinating the implementation of the training schools academic programmes .
- Provide general academic leadership for the training school .
- Ensure that all the necessary academic accreditations, requirements are complied with .
- Carry out the schools administration related duties-Transport Office .
- Carry out Human Resource related duties at college level .
- Deal with students Admission.
Education and experience:
- A Bachelors degree in Education, or related field plus a post graduate Higher/Diploma Human resource management or related field from recognised institutions.
- Five (5) years of working experience three of which should have been in a senior position at a recognized training or Education Institution.
- Proficiency in Computer application packages
The person
- Must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills;
- Must demonstrate high level of maturity and integrity;
- Demonstrate the ability to work without close supervision
- Interested candidates should send their written applications together with their curriculums vitaes, copies of academic and professional Certificates and other testimonials:
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Time Base: Full-time
Duration: 06 Months
Location: Abudwaq – Somalia with frequent trips to Nairobi
Salary: Negotiable
Are you interested to manage a humanitarian program that will help influence the lives of thousands of Somalis in need? Help shape a better future to vulnerable persons and apply to join our team as Monitoring and Programming Officer.
The Monitoring and Programming Officer, with the support of Premiere Urgence Somalia Program Coordinator (Based in Nairobi) and the his Assistant, directly monitors an humanitarian program implemented by a partner in the Abudwaq District, Galgaduud region, Somalia, and plans futures humanitarian actions.
Premiere Urgence-Aide Medical Internationale (PU-AMI) mandate is to answer the fundamental needs of the population affected by conflicts, natural disasters or economic crisis: food, water, health, home and livelihood.
PU’s strategy is to develop an integrated approach of crisis management based on our technical, medical and non medical expertise. PU’s activities span from emergency to post-crisis / development support and our programs are designed and developed in strong partnership with national / regional authorities, communities and the civil society.
Premiere Urgence (first emergency) Kenya is working since 2008 and has already implemented, with its partner, a food distribution program in Somalia in 2009.
Duties:
- Represents the organization in the country and as such, participates to all related meetings
- Assists the partner in the implementation of the food distribution program
- Monitors the activities implemented and reports to his supervisor
- Assists the partner in all program related aspects (i.e. SoVs, PDM)
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the program and proposes options of improvement if needed
- Ensure a good coordination with all the stakeholders present on the field (UN Agencies, International and National organizations, local authorities)
- Provides the PU Program Coordinator with regular feed-backs and reports
- Collects relevant and reliable information and data, records them and provides statistics
- With the support of his supervisor as well as PU’s Partner, ensures the preparation, the development and the implementation of a humanitarian needs assessment.
- Write a needs assessment report including analysis, main findings, and recommendations in order to identify a country strategy and write concept notes
- At the end of the operation, writes a full monitoring report including analysis and recommendations
- Experience of at least 3 (three) years in developing and/or implementing humanitarian programs in Somalia
- Good experience in developing and/or monitoring humanitarian operations
- Experience in realizing humanitarian needs assessments
- Excellent writing and analysis capacities
- Good knowledge of the targeted district and of the main stakeholders present there
- Good negotiations capacities
- Ability and willingness to work in insecure and stressful environment
- Persons with required qualifications and capabilities
Applications will be screened and only the most qualified will be interviewed.
How to Apply:
Submit a cover letter and resume with references to: ken.hr.pu@gmail.com
Include a Statement of Qualifications that describes your experience, knowledge and abilities as they relate to each “Required Qualifications and Capabilities” factor listed under the “Desirable Qualifications” section of this bulletin.
You must provide specific examples for each Desirable Qualification factor.
The Desirable Qualification factors must be addressed and numbered in the same order as listed.
The Statement of Qualifications should not exceed three pages in length.
Applications and statement of qualifications must be received by: December 15, 2011
With operations in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana, Botswana and Zambia, Cellulant is one of the most innovative and fastest growing regional players in the Mobile VAS industry.
Cellulant was Judged Top (Number 1) Mid-sized Business in 2008 KPMG/Business Daily Top 100 SME Survey. Follow this link for details:
www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10438&Itemid=5812
Job Title: Systems Integration Engineer (2 Positions)
Reporting To: Team Leader Integrations
Job Location: Nairobi
Eligible Nationalities: Kenyans
Key Areas of Responsibility
- Creates and executes software integration plans
- Conduct scientific POC like integrations and/or evaluations to establish formal integrations strategies and roadmaps.
- Participate in the design of general integration strategies and propose/develop specific point integrations within the general framework.
- Ensure all designs are version-proof as integrated products follow their own roadmaps/life cycles.
- Working with product management, exercise influence (as much as possible) on 3rd party roadmap evolutions.
- Advanced Diploma in Computer Science, IT or other related qualifications from a reputable Educational Institution
- Degree qualifications in Computer Science or related field will be an added advantage.
- 3+ years experience in software development, including participation in enterprise-class projects
- Hands-on working experience with or extensive knowledge of several of the following integration protocols:
- SOAP-based APIs
- RESTful or XML-based APIs
- ISO8583 APIs
- Sockets Communication APIs
- Strong proficiency in Java and one or more scripting languages.
- A solid understanding of database concepts and experience writing software that utilizes database interaction.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to thoroughly document the design of new software and maintain documentation throughout the lifecycle (e.g. specification documents, object models, class diagrams, state flows, etc.)
- Team player who will enjoy performing multiple technical functions when needed.
- Works under limited direction.
- Determines and develops approach to solutions.
- Evaluates work upon completion to ensure objectives have been met.
- Contributes to the development of organization’s goals and objectives.
- Ability to professionally manage multiple priorities with minimal supervision and on schedule.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills required.
- Must have strong documentation skills and the ability to understand software functional specifications.
How to Apply:
Interested candidates should forward their applications enclosing copies of their detailed CVs to the following address:
Adecco Employment Services
Email: info@adeccokenya.com
Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Deadline Date: 31 December 2011
Our Client, Cellulant, is a technology-driven aggregator of value added services and content on GSM networks. Cellulant runs services based on USSD, SMS, Voice (IVR), MMS, GPRS and J2ME technologies.
With operations in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana, Botswana and Zambia, Cellulant is one of the most innovative and fastest growing regional players in the Mobile VAS industry.
Cellulant was Judged Top (Number 1) Mid-sized Business in 2008 KPMG/Business Daily Top 100 SME Survey. Follow this link for details:
www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10438&Itemid=5812
Job Title: Software Developer / Engineer
Reporting To: Team Leader Software
Job Location: Nairobi
Eligible Nationalities: Kenyans
Key Areas of Responsibility
- Full life cycle application development
- Object oriented design and analysis
- Database design
- Presenting ideas for system improvements
- Testing the products in controlled, real situations before handing over to Quality assurance team.
- Technical system documentation
- Performance tuning, balancing and usability of systems
- Identify new technologies for implementation in system development
- Develop both back end (daemon applications) and web user interfaces (GUIs)
- Design and develop programming systems making specific determinations about system performance.
- Responding promptly and professionally to bug reports.
Academic Qualifications:
- Degree qualifications in Computer Science or related field from a reputable University.
Specific Knowledge & Skills Requirements:
- Good understanding of Object oriented programming and good understanding of the following programming languages Java, OOP PHP (Python is an added advantage)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience using Subversion for source code/resource control
- Experience using Agile/Scrum development methodology
- Team player who will enjoy performing multiple technical functions when needed.
- Works under limited direction.
- Determines and develops approach to solutions.
- Evaluates work upon completion to ensure objectives have been met.
- Contributes to the development of organization’s goals and objectives.
- Ability to professionally manage multiple priorities with minimal supervision and on schedule.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills required.
- Age 20 – 27 years old
- No criminal records
- Certificate of good conduct
How to Apply:
Interested candidates should forward their applications enclosing copies of their detailed CVs to the following address:
Adecco Employment Services
Email: info@adeccokenya.com
Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Deadline Date: 31 December 2011
A safari company in Nairobi is seeking a Financial Controller.
Must be CPA (K)
Must have managed a large team
Must have experience in all facets of Hospitality and Tourism Accounting
Deadline: 15th of December 2011
Salary gross of 400,000/-
Applications:
Please send an up to date CV, stating your current salary, accompanied by at least 3 referee telephone numbers/email addresses to:
sue@summitrecruitment-kenya.com
Summit recruitment & Training,
Rhino House, Karen Road, Karen
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.
Please indicate in your email which position you are interested in.
Only applicants who are successful will be contacted.
Please do not apply if you do not meet the requirements of the job.
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